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Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service (14 March 2022)
Consultation outcome
Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service
- From:
- Department for Work and Pensions
- Published
- 18 June 2021
- Last updated
- 14 March 2022 — See all updates
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
This consultation has concluded
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Government response: Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service
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Welsh: Ymateb y llywodraeth: Cynhaliaeth Plant: moderneiddio a gwella ein gwasanaeth
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Detail of outcome
We published our response to this consultation on 14 March 2022.
Original consultation
Summary
This consultation seeks views on a number of proposed legislative changes aimed at modernising and improving the Child Maintenance Service.
This consultation ran from
9:30am on 18 June 2021 to 11:45pm on 6 August 2021
Consultation description
The proposals in this consultation seek to strengthen the current Child Maintenance Service (CMS), which was introduced in 2012.
The proposals would enable:
- unearned income held by HMRC to be included in CMS calculations alongside paying parents’ earned income
- evidential requirements for self-employed parents to be eased where a change that has breached the income tolerance has been reported
- small volumes of low value debt to be extinguished where the value of the debt is substantially less than the cost of collecting it
- arrears to be extinguished where:
- child maintenance has been deducted from a parent’s earnings where their employer has gone into administration and
- we are unable to recover the outstanding arrears from the trustee handling the companies’ insolvency
- all CMS notifications to be sent, received and accessed digitally
- the following organisations to provide information when requested to do so in a timely manner: private pension providers, academy proprietors, the Motor Insurers’ Bureau and all types of companies that offer, promote or sell investment management services or facilitate share trading
This consultation is open to voluntary and community sector organisations, as well as CMS customers and members of the general public.
This consultation applies to England, Wales and Scotland, although we welcome comments from across the United Kingdom.
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Child Maintenance: modernising and improving our service
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Welsh: Cynhaliaeth Plant: moderneiddio a gwella ein gwasanaeth
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Published 18 June 2021
Last updated 14 March 2022 + show all updates